How do you make sense of India’s 2015 budget? Here is how to use Google charts to create treemaps to visualize India’s 2015 budget expenditures. Here is the web page which contains information on budget expenditures – take a look…

Google charts now supports hierarchical treemaps. You can put together a treemap without any programming. Here is a good tutorial on creating a treemap using Google charts. Here is my treemap of the Singapore 2015 Communications and Information development expenditure. …

Here is my visualization of India’s expenditure budget for Electronics and Information Technology (click on the image for an interactive chart). Here is the original PDF. Here is the data file I created.

This is my visualization of India’s 2014 Budget Expenditures by ministry. If you dare, here is the original. You can also compare with Singapore’s budget or India’s 2013 budget. If you compare with Singapore, you can see that the number…

This is my next attempt at making sense of Singapore’s 2014 budget. The graphic shows the top 500 development expenditures. You can use the listbox to select a particular ministry. On non-touch devices (laptop, desktop) you can see tooltips. In…

Open Data Index There is an interesting organization which assesses the state of open data around the world’ – the Open Data Index. The need for open data is to make governments transparent and accountable. An important goal of open…

Here is my visualization of Singapore’s 2014 budget expenditure. Click on the image to view the interactive visualization. This is better experienced in a laptop/desktop. I’ll be writing more about this later.

It helps to look at budget as part of GDP. Here is a chart with budget expenditures as part of GDP. This chart only shows expenditures. Revenues greater than expenses result in a surplus. Revenues less than expenses results in…

Singapore, as other countries, is in the process of finalizing it’s budget for 2013. I have created a visualization of Singapore’s budget expenses. All credit for the visualization goes to Mike Bostock. There are similar fancy visualizations in the U.S. …